grader
nounUS /ˈɡɹeɪdɚ/ · UK /ˈɡɹeɪdə/
Etymology From grade + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 4).
1
A machine used in road maintenance, construction, and mining for leveling large surfaces.
- The blade-grader is a long steel-framed carriage under which is fixed a steel blade capable of being tilted at various angles: its principal use is in trimming cutting-slopes.1943 September and October, “Railway Construction and Operation at War Department Depots”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:
2
A machine used to sort food by size or quality.
3
One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.
- the graders of a school examination
4
In compounds One who belongs to a certain grade at school.
- a first-grader
- The episode follows two different stories: in one, the show’s resident bigot, Eric Cartman, is outraged to learn that fellow fourth grader Clyde has risen to prominence as a white nationalist podcaster who makes offensive claims about women, Jewish people, Black people and other minority groups to goad them into debating him in exploitative viral videos (“WOKE STUDENT TOTALLY PWNED”).2025 August 7, Zach Vasquez, “From puppy murder to racist podcasts: South Park’s anti-deportation episode is utterly ruthless TV”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- Derived terms
30 terms
10th grader, 11th grader, 12th grader, 13th grader, 1st grader, 2nd grader, 3rd grader, 4th grader, 5th grader, 6th grader, 7th grader, 8th grader, 9th grader, eighth grader, eleventh grader, fifth grader, first grader, fourth grader, intergrader, intragrader, ninth grader, reserve grader, second grader, seventh grader, sixth grader, tenth grader, third-grader, third grader, thirteenth grader, twelfth grader